Preparing to move over the Christmas period Posted On 02 November 2018

Moving house is traditionally seen as one of the most stressful ventures in a person’s life. Couple that with Christmas, what’s meant to be a jolly time of year, could be a recipe for disaster. That is if you don’t have a good plan up your sleeve!

Moving before Christmas

The thought of moving before Christmas and enjoying the festive period in your new home is something many people dream about. And it’s something which is possible and doesn’t have to be stressful! Just like any house move, planning is essential. Arranging Christmas decorations into separate boxes and buying a tree in advance are both good ways to make sure your Christmas decorations are easy to unpack and decorate your house with. Storing your year-round ornaments and photo frames in a separate box means you can keep them to one side and unpack them after the Christmas period.

If you prefer having a real tree rather than an artificial one, a small table top tree is a great way to enjoy a real tree without the worry of moving a six-foot tree, or to save you from a last-minute scramble to find one! These are also easy to decorate as they don’t require a lot of baubles or lights.

If, like Cliff Richard, you want to put logs on the fire, it is essential that the fireplace has been recently swept. Go back to the house to check the condition of the fireplace and ask the vendors when the last time they had the chimney swept. Booking the chimney sweeper before you move in means the fireplace will be ready to use. Additionally, if the property is powered by oil, make sure there is enough fuel in the tank to see you through the winter months.

Also check for any potential problems with lighting and electrics. Avoid the added stress of having to rush to the shops because of faulty fairy lights by checking these before you pack. The simple and quick job of plugging your lights in and checking they all work could save you a nasty last-minute shock. If you are a keen Christmas shopper then you may have already bought all your presents, if so make sure these can’t be seen by someone when packing or unpacking!

And if you have time, wrapping your presents up early before the move will make sure no surprises are ruined if your children go on a hunt for presents! Try and collate your presents into the same boxes and make sure any valuable presents are safely wrapped in bubble wrap.

For children, Christmas is a very exciting time and a house move may add to this heightened level. A move around Christmas is stressful enough so we would advise letting a family member take them shopping or to visit the Christmas festivities that are going on at this time of year, whilst you move. This welcome distraction will allow you to get on with the move without having over excitable children running around.
Spending your first Christmas in your new home creates a magical cosy experience and one that your family will cherish for years to come, and we are here for you to help your move go smoothly.

Moving after Christmas

If you’re moving home after Christmas, you can still have Christmas decorations, without having to worry about added stress! Try to keep the decorations to a minimum rather than turning your home into Santa’s grotto. Keep boxes aside specifically for decorations so they can be easily packed away. If you own an artificial tree, keep the original box so it can easily be stored away in the new home too. You should never under estimate just how much you have, so keeping decorations short and minimal won’t add to the pressures of packing!

It is a good idea to plan Christmas dinner and the need to use kitchen appliances, crockery and glasses. If you can’t talk your way into going to a relative’s house for Christmas dinner, you could suggest that visitors help with the cooking by bringing pre-cooked roasties, stuffing or veg to reduce the workload – and the washing up! Alternatively, for more peace of mind you can book a family meal out.

Only use rooms which you use day to day and use spare rooms, such as extra reception rooms or a study, for storage. That way you can pack things away whilst making space for Christmas decorations. Packing over the space of a few weeks and using spare rooms or the garage for storage will also help relieve the stress of packing. If it is possible, you could even ask your kids to room-share for a few nights, so you have extra rooms for storage.

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Horler & Associates Privacy Notice

Horler & Associates privacy notice provides information on how Horler & Associates and any of its subsidiaries, branches or representative offices and any 3rd party providers collect, use, secure, transfer and share your information.

It serves most major lenders, investors, house builders, commercial businesses, corporations, local authorities, housing associations and the general public via the following business units / divisions. Full details can be found on our website http://www.horler.co.uk/.

Markets Horler & Associates services via a
suite of websites and other means

Retail

Sales & Lettings Services

1. Types of Information Collected.

Typically Horler & Associates collect the following where applicable:

First name

How many Dependants?

Personal Debt Details

Salary

Middle Name

Dependants Name

Personal Expenditure

Accountant Details

Surname

Dependants DOB

Existing Mortgage Details

Previous Employers Details

Previous Name

Primary ID

Existing Insurance Details

Employers Address

Date of Birth

Address ID

Email Address

Employers Phone Number

Present Address

Bank Statements

Phone Numbers

Health

Residential Status Credit Card

Statements

New Property Details

Ethnicity

Previous Addresses Mortgage

Statements

Solicitor details

Credit Card Details

Landlord Details

Proof of Deposit

Estate Agent Details

Bank Details

Nationality

Payslips

New Mortgage Details

NI Number

Self Employed Accounts

New Insurance Details

UK National

Gender

Marital Status

1.1. Methods of Collection
In the general conduct of business, Horler & Associates collects information relevant to the services being sought across the range of services it offers (listed previously) from:

Through consent to third parties disclosing information about you to us that they have collected

Such information will generally be collected directly via the use of any of our standard forms, over the internet, via email, in our branches or through a telephone conversation with you. We may also collect personal information through our affiliates or suppliers.

In addition, you may choose to submit information directly to us via several methods, including:

through Horler & Associates websites

In response to marketing or other communications

Through social media

By signing up for a Horler & Associates product or service

Through participation in an offer, program or promotion

In connection with an actual or potential business or employment relationship with us

You may also agree to third parties disclosing information about you to us that those third parties have collected.

Our service providers and partners may collect certain information by using automated means, such as cookies and web beacons, when you interact with our advertisements,
mobile applications, or visit our websites, pages or other digital assets. The information we collect in this manner may include: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs and information on actions taken or interaction with our digital assets.

We may use third-party web analytics services on our websites and mobile apps The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to help us analyse how visitors use our websites and apps.

"Your Rights and Choices" section of this Privacy Notice specifies your ability, to opt out or limit the usage of the information collected.

1.2. Purposes of Collection
Generally, we will collect, use and hold your information for the purposes of:

Enforce Horler & Associates £Terms of Use£, other legal rights as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency having or claiming jurisdiction over Horler & Associates or its affiliates.

Comply with industry standards and Horler & Associates policies

Anti-Money Laundering

In addition to help you with a property related service we have to comply with certain regulations for example the £Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (referred to as £the Regulations).£ Horler & Associates and other subsidiaries are required to obtain certain information from you to comply with regulations. The information provided will only be used by Horler & Associates in relation to complying with the Regulations and will not be shared with any other party outside of the companies wholly owned by Horler & Associates unless we are required to do so under law.

If you decide to enter in to a business relationship with Horler & Associates or any wholly owned subsidiary to comply with certain regulations.

We will require two separate Identification documents one primary and one secondary document even if it appears on both lists. The information may be required at various stages of the process depending whether you are:

Purchasing/Selling or Letting

Primary documents - proof of ID

Valid Passport with MRZ

Valid full UK photo driving licence

Valid full UK Driving licence (Non photo, paper) issued before 1998

Valid EU/EEA/Switzerland photo driving licence.

Valid EU/EEA/Switzerland national Identity Card.

Valid UK Armed Forces ID Card.

Valid UK Biometric Residence Permit (copy of both sides.)

Valid Blue disabled drivers pass. (With photo)

Valid Freedom Pass

Valid Local Authority Bus pass.

Department for Works & Pensions letter confirming pension details including National Insurance Number dated within the last 12 months.

Secondary documents - proof of residence (home.)

Valid full UK photo driving licence.

Valid full UK Driving licence (Non photo, paper) issued before 1998

Local authority council tax bill (dated within the last 12 months).

UK Bank / Building societies statements/bills showing activity, dated within the last six mths. Including account number and sort code. (Internet printed acceptable.)

Department for Works & Pensions letter confirming pension details and NI Number. (Dated within the last 12 months).

We reserve the right to employ third party electronic verification for the purpose of verifying identity. This search will not affect your credit rating

1.3. Lawful basis of processing

Horler & Associates processes your information under the following

Performance of a contract: where you enter into a contract with Horler & Associates and we need to process your information as part of this contract

Legitimate interests: some information is processed by Horler & Associates as part of its legitimate interests which include :Fraud, risk assessment, due diligence, network and information security, suppressions and managing opting out of communications , profiling ,
direct marketing, monitoring, web analytics, cloud storage, acquisitions, updating customer details, lettings, sales, financial services and other core products and service provided by the data controller

Public interest: some information is processed in accordance public interest such as relocations

Consent : where we process information under consent we will seek you clear and unambiguous consent prior to processing your data

2. Information We Share

We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Notice or as indicated via the consent process at the time the data is collected. We share the information we collect with, but not limited to:

We contractually require these service providers to safeguard the privacy and security of personal information they process on our behalf and authorise them to use or disclose the information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal
requirements

Additionally we may share information about you, if required legally, to prevent harm or financial / reputation loss, for investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activities.

Perspective employers requesting references via your written consent

On websites, features can be accessed where we partner with other entities that are not affiliated with Horler & Associates. These include social networking etc. are operated by third parties (indicated appropriately) who may use or share personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. It is recommended that you review the third parties' privacy policies if you use the relevant features.

Horler & Associates reserve the right to transfer your information in the event of a sale or transfer (wholly or partially) of our business or assets, with reasonable efforts for the acquirer protect / use your information. You can exercise your rights to contact the acquiring entity with questions concerning the protection and processing of your information.

2.1 How long do we keep information for

We will keep information for a reasonable amount of time in order to perform the purposes listed above.

We only keep your information for as long as necessary. We generally keep personal information for 7 years after last contact with you. However Horler & Associates reserves the right to keep information for longer if we feel that this is in the legitimate interests of Horler &
Associates.

2.2 International Data Transfers

Horler & Associates may transfer the personal information collected about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially
provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time the data is collected (e.g. via program specific privacy notice).

2.3 Profiling

For the purposes of business conduct, enhancement, identification of fraud, money laundering and other potential un-authorised activities, Horler & Associates engages profiling activities via direct use or anonymisation of sensitive personal information.

2.3.1 Direct Profiling

Direct profiling is engaged for the fair and lawful purposes, to provide Horler & Associates the ability to enforce Horler & Associates £Terms of Use£, legal reporting as may be required by applicable laws, regulations, policies / standards or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency having or claiming jurisdiction over Horler & Associates or its affiliates; including, but not limited to:

Indirect profiling via anonymisation of personal information is also used for preparing and furnishing aggregated data reports showing anonymised information, including, but not limited to, the following:

Compilations, analyses, analytical and predictive models and rules, and other aggregated reports for the purpose of advising our partners / affiliates and servicing institutions, retailers and other customers regarding past and potential future patterns of service usage, spending, fraud, and other insights that may be extracted from this data.

Compiling and communicating promotional and marketing information about products and services that Horler & Associates, affiliates and other organisations that we have affiliations with have and that may be of interest to you.

Conducting market research

Facilitating our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements.

2.4 Your Rights and Choices

Your rights regarding the sensitive / personal information we maintain about you enable you to exercise choices about what personal information we collect from you, how we use that information, and how we communicate with you.

You will be sent a web access form to complete and login to access your data.

2.5 Access and Correction

You may have the right to:

obtain confirmation that we hold personal information about you

request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you

receive copies of the personal information we maintain about you

The right to access personal information may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements.

To exercise these rights, please contact us as set forth below.

2.6 Update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information

If you feel that the information we hold about you is incorrect or inaccurate you can contact us outlining the information you feel is incorrect or inaccurate

If we refuse to correct your personal information, we will provide you with a written notice that sets out the reasons for our refusal (unless it would be unreasonable to provide those reasons) and provide you with a statement regarding the mechanisms available to you to
make a complaint. We will provide you with access to information we hold about you:

2.7 Object to the processing of your personal information

If you would like to object to any processing of your information by Horler & Associates you can contact us outlining what processing of information you would like to object to.

2.8 Have the information blocked, anonymised or deleted

If you would like Horler & Associates to delete, block or anonymise information we hold about you, you can contact us outlining what information you would like deleted , blocked or anonymised.

To update your preferences, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists or submit a request to access, update, correct or delete your personal information, please contact us as specified in the £How To Contact Us£ section below.

2.9 Opting out of processing

You can opt out collection of personal information by automated means e.g. when visiting our website or visit third-party websites and interact with our adverts, by using the Cookie Consent tool displayed in the website (the browser you use may provide options on how to
opt out of receiving certain types of cookies). However without cookies you may not be able to use all of the website features and/or online services.

You can at any time tell us not to send you marketing communications by

post@horler.co.uk for all sales enquiries
or write to us at
Horler & Associates
242 Dedworth Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4JW

If we fall short of your expectations in processing your personal information or you wish to make a complaint about our privacy practices, please contact us via the details in the "How To Contact Us" section below.

To assist us in responding to your request, please give full details of the issue. We attempt to review and respond to all complaints within a reasonable time.
If we cannot for lawful reasons complete your request we will explain this to you to the extent that we lawfully can.

3.1 How We Protect Personal Information

The security of your personal information is very important and Horler & Associates is committed to protecting the information we collect. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide or we collect against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Horler & Associates stores personal information only for as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose for which the personal information was collected, unless otherwise required or authorised by applicable law. We take measures to destroy or permanently deidentify personal information if required by law or if the personal information is no longer required for the purpose for which we collected it.

4 Updating this privacy statement

We will update this statement from time to time so we suggest that you review this statement at regular intervals. Where we undergo substantial changes to our privacy statement we will endeavour to inform you directly about these changes.